{"id":16110,"date":"2018-04-05T12:53:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T12:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/?p=16110"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:29:36","slug":"cerus-consolidates-office-roots-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/cerus-consolidates-office-roots-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Cerus Consolidates Office Roots in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Biomedical product manufacturer Cerus Corp. is consolidating its presence in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/office\/us\/ca\/concord\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Concord, Calif.<\/a>, its home city, by entering a long-term lease agreement with Sierra Pacific Properties, the manager of the office building at 1200 Concord Ave.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16111\" style=\"width: 368px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16111\" class=\" wp-image-16111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1200-concord-avenue-375x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"286\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1200 Concord Avenue, Concord (Yardi Matrix)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The company has recently signed an 11-year\u00a0lease for a 65,092-square-foot space within the recently repositioned and rebranded property, which is part of the Concord Airport Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to be staying in the city of Concord where the company was founded over 25 years ago. Concord&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/office\/us\/ca\/east-bay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">central East Bay location<\/a> allows us to recruit from a great pool of talent in the region. In addition, the new lease allows us to consolidate our existing facilities under one roof as the company grows,&#8221; William Greenman, president &amp; chief executive officer of Cerus, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Active in the field of blood transfusion safety, the company was attracted to the six-story mid-rise by the landlord\u2019s plan to complete a multi-million-dollar cosmetic and functional transformation of the property. The real estate developer is set to renovate the lobby and to add new amenities to the 1989-built Class B office center.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion, the mid-rise will feature a tenant conference center with a separate break room and an adjacent exterior patio meeting area, as well as a fitness center equipped with interactive cardio machines, strength stations, free weights, and stretching areas with adjacent showers. Furthermore, the center-fountain courtyard will include collaboration areas.<\/p>\n<p>Cerus will share the property with six other companies active in a variety of fields, such as accounting, construction or real estate. The building\u2019s tenant roster includes construction management company KSD Group, accounting firm Bedinger &amp; Co., and commercial property manager company Reynolds &amp; Brown, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardimatrix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Yardi Matrix<\/em><\/a> data. The latest addition to the roster is HomeBridge Financial Services, a privately held, non-banking company that rented a 3,597-square-foot space within the building.<\/p>\n<p>Located at 1200 Concord Ave., the 185,513-square-foot property is part of Concord Airport Plaza, a two-building office com<\/p>\n<p>plex. The second building within the complex is a 175,153-square-foot mid-rise constructed in 1987 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialcafe.com\/commercial-property\/us\/ca\/concord\/concord-airport-plaza-b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1220 Concord Ave.<\/a> Currently, that building houses only one tenant, Wells Fargo, which leased a 73,911-square-foot space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Biomedical product manufacturer Cerus Corp. is consolidating its presence in Concord, Calif., its home city, by entering a long-term lease agreement with Sierra Pacific Properties, the manager of the office building at 1200 Concord Ave. The company has recently signed an 11-year\u00a0lease for a 65,092-square-foot space within the recently repositioned and rebranded property, which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":16113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-real-estate-news","category-office","wpautop"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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